Romany Malco (Romany Romanic Malco Jr.) Quotes
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How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
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What is a farm but a mute gospel?
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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I've always been impelled to say the truth. When I was 14, in 1954, I already wrote a gay novel, though I'd never read one. I felt that life handed me a great subject, gay life, that had scarcely been examined, and I was impelled to record it in all its strange detail.
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'Holy Smoke' is very brave because I don't think it's easy to watch.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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The radio is good for taking somebody else's experience and making you understand what it would be like. Because when you don't see someone, but you hear them talking - and, uh, that is what radio is all about - it's like when someone is talking from the heart. Everything about it conspires to take you into somebody else's world.
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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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Like many New Englanders - he was a neighbor of Calvin Coolidge's in Northampton - he finds life a serious business. But he's never - well - heavy about it.
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I must cite an intrinsic condition of the universe. We set forth in any direction which seems convenient; each leads to the same place: the end of the universe.
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First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought.
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things they already had getting more sophisticated - flying cars, self-cleaning windows. And the folks in the early 1900s had a wildly optimistic estimate of the future of pneumatic tubes.
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Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Far out there – that
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An unresolved past erodes beauty in the present.
